Civic Square

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Width:  6  Inches
Height:  9  Inches
Pages:  360
Format:  Paperback
Publication Date:  January 1, 2007
Illustrations:  None
Publisher:  Dundurn Press

Description

Written as letters addressed to “Dear Reader,” Civic Square is symphonic in its range of tone and style. Largely satiric, it is the story of a man who finds himself in a cultural upheaval as the stifling society of Toronto in 1966 begins to crumble around him - begins to crumble, in part, because he himself is kicking against the walls that constrain. Caught between a huge admiration for the older values of Rosedale and the dynamic new energy of Yorkville, with its musicians, poets and writers of the counter-culture movement, the narrator finds himself trying to reconstruct his world in every aspect.

First published as a limited edition in 1969, Civic Square is a lost Canadian classic that has never before been widely available.

Author

Scott Symons‘ previous books include the novels Place d‘Armes: A Combat Journal (1967) and Helmet of Flesh (1986). In 1970 he published Heritage: A Romantic Look at Early Canadian Furniture. He was a professor at the University of Toronto, a curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, and a visiting curator at Winterthur and the Smithsonian. In the early 1970s, he was writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University. He has lived most of his recent life in Morocco, and currently lives in Toronto.

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